The Cambridge History of English Literature: From Steele and Addison to Pope and SwiftSir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller The University Press, 1912 - English literature |
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... whole Litter of Libellers ' assailed him at this season ; but ' the Dog Towzer ' was not to be thus daunted . He returned in February 1681 , and kept the press busy , not only with apologetic pamphlets , but with bitter assaults upon ...
... whole Litter of Libellers ' assailed him at this season ; but ' the Dog Towzer ' was not to be thus daunted . He returned in February 1681 , and kept the press busy , not only with apologetic pamphlets , but with bitter assaults upon ...
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... been somewhat shifty as a man of affairs and , perhaps , as a writer ; but , on the whole , he had been courageous in facing disaster , and he had been more or less consistent and high - minded in his attitude toward public.
... been somewhat shifty as a man of affairs and , perhaps , as a writer ; but , on the whole , he had been courageous in facing disaster , and he had been more or less consistent and high - minded in his attitude toward public.
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... whole , the Defoe of The Review is liberal and consistent in his politics and far - sighted in commercial and economic matters . In a sense , too , a reissue of these rare volumes would be a monument to the prescience of that ...
... whole , the Defoe of The Review is liberal and consistent in his politics and far - sighted in commercial and economic matters . In a sense , too , a reissue of these rare volumes would be a monument to the prescience of that ...
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... whole controversy and to minimise his own part in it , and that , these attempts failing , he wrote his Appeal , upon which he expended all the resources of his genius for casuistry , without succeeding in changing the opinions of his ...
... whole controversy and to minimise his own part in it , and that , these attempts failing , he wrote his Appeal , upon which he expended all the resources of his genius for casuistry , without succeeding in changing the opinions of his ...
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... whole fraternity of fops is characterised as ' the order of the insipids 11 ' ; but the severest strictures are passed on the pretence of viciousness which was part of the dandies ' pose 12. Thus , the two nations pass before us . On ...
... whole fraternity of fops is characterised as ' the order of the insipids 11 ' ; but the severest strictures are passed on the pretence of viciousness which was part of the dandies ' pose 12. Thus , the two nations pass before us . On ...
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Page 285 - Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind...
Page 85 - But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
Page 302 - ... the nearer we search into human nature, the more we shall be convinced, that the moral virtues are the political offspring which flattery begot upon pride.
Page 172 - Can I forget the dismal night, that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave ? How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of the dead, Through breathing statues, then unheeded things, Through rows of warriors, and through walks of kings...
Page 123 - He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad: And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much: That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish it soon may have a better.
Page 102 - ... instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax ; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Page 103 - I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Page 313 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.
Page 120 - STELLA this day is thirty-four, (We sha'n't dispute a year or more :) However, Stella, be not troubled, Although thy size and years are doubled Since first I saw thee at sixteen, The brightest virgin on the green ; So little is thy form declined ; Made up so largely in thy mind.